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FBI Unveils Movable Feast with 'Operation Bot Roast' - UPDATE

Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix:

The FBI said today it has identified more than 1 million personal computers that have been infected with computer worms enabling the attackers to control PCs for criminal purposes such as sending spam, spreading spyware and attacking Web sites.

The FBI used details it gleaned from an ongoing investigation called "Operation Bot Roast" to highlight a few recent arrests of individuals accused of running botnets and to raise public awareness about the problem, which the agency called "a growing threat to national security, the national information infrastructure and the economy."

More here.

UPDATE: 08:07 PDT: Also, an Associated Press (AP) article (via MSNBC) on the topic can be found here.

posted by Fergie @ 6/14/2007 07:41:00 AM